Broadway Star Mugged Inside Harlem Dunkin' Donuts: NYPD, Report

HARLEM, NY — A Broadway star was mugged at gunpoint in Harlem on Easter Sunday, according to police and reports.

John Cardoza, a star of the new Broadway musical "The Notebook," based on the hit film, was inside a Dunkin' Donuts on West 145th Street and Saint Nicholas Avenue when a stranger asked him for a dollar, according to the Daily News.

“I offered to buy him lunch because I didn’t have cash on me, and it escalated from there pretty quickly,” the 30-year-old actor said on his Instagram page, reported the Daily News.

According to police, the man simulated that he had a pistol and demanded Cardoza's wallet, which only contained $9 in cash.

“Ultimately, he didn’t make off with anything irreplaceable,” Cardoza wrote in an Instagram story, the Daily News said. “It makes me sad to think people are as desperate as this – and it makes me sad to feel a need to alert anyone to this kind of activity.”

Police said there were no injuries reported.

“It’s the world we’re living in, and if you’re like me, you already are careful and don’t think it’s going to happen to you until it’s staring you in the face,” Cardoza wrote, according to the Daily News, “So please be vigilant as the weather warms up and more people are out and about.”

The same day, another actor was attacked in Central Park when a stranger hurled a rock at the back of his neck.